In his recruitment waiata, 'Te ope tuatahi', Ngata made it clear that the replacement recruits that he and his colleagues had raised all came from the East Coast tribes of Mahaki, Hauiti, Ngati Porou, Te Arawa and Kahungunu.
Biography of Te Puea Herangi, grand-daughter of the second Maori King. Te Puea was a prominent advocate for Tainui in the first half of the twentieth century.
